Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery by Lorine McGinnis SchulzeJanie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and and Amazon.ca

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Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery
by Lorine McGinnis Schulze

Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca

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SHIPS TO MASSACHUSSETS BEFORE 1820

Early settlers of Massachusetts generally came from England and Scotland and the other New England states. Plymouth Colony was first settled in 1620. From 1630 to 1642, fifteen to twenty thousand people settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

The following sources for immigrants to Massachusetts will be helpful:

Filby, P. William. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. 11 vols. Indexes over 500,000 passengers to America from 1650 to mid-1980 in published passenger lists. Includes the immigrant's name, age, and year of arrival. Provides source list for all indexed passengers. The first three volumes are a combined alphabetical index that was published in 1981. Supplemental volumes have been issued annually. Indexed CD with names of approximately 3,530,000 individuals who arrived in United States and Canadian ports. Or search online Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [$]

Colket, Meridith B. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe 1607–1657. Includes a list of those who came to the Colonies during the first 50 years. Lists names, dates, and brief information about each immigrant and sources for further research.

Banks, Charles E. Planters of the Commonwealth: Emigrants to New England in Colonial Times.

Anderson, Robert C. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1623–1633. Genealogical information about the early immigrants to New England. Each volume is indexed, with a cumulative index at the end of volume 3. Well documented with sources cited.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614–1775. An alphabetical list of English convicts transported to colonial America.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661–1669 A list of those who emigrated from England to America, including those who were deported and those sold into labor. Compiled from English public records.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1700–1750. A list of those who emigrated from England to America. Compiled from English public records. Usually gives name, age, occupation, residence, ship, destination, and precise source citation.

Bolton, Ethel Stanwood. Immigrants to New England, 1700–1775. includes names, dates, place of origin, place of settlement, and some family information.

Ship Arrivals Before 1820

Ships Passenger Lists to Massachussets 1620

The Mayflower And Her Log, July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 -- Complete. Online at the Gutenberg Project in text or zipped versions.

Ships Passenger Lists to Massachussets 1630

In 1630 John Winthrop organized a fleet of 11 ships to carry immigrants from England to America. Departing in two groups in April and May, they arrived at various dates in June and July. These ships were:The Ambrose; The Arbella; The Charles; The Hopewell; The Jewel; The Mayflower; The Success; The Talbot ; The Trial; The Whale; The William & Francis Winthrop Fleet Large list of names of passengers to New England 1630 on board all ships listed above

Ships Passenger Lists to Massachussets 1767

Ships Passenger Lists to Massachussets 1779

Ships Passenger Lists to Massachussets 1804

Passengers Engaged to Sail on Board the American Brig Atlantic, Robert Askins, Master burden 196 tone, for Boston, Massachusetts Sworn at Dublin Ireland 19 June 1804.

If you don't find your ancestor on my ships' pages, try genealogy records on Ancestry.com. You can view them with a trial period free access. OliveTreeGenealogy.com free immigration databases are listed after the fee based databases below

Step 4:
If you still can't find your ancestor in free ships passenger lists, try ships
passenger lists and naturalization records on a pay site. See the Immigration Comparison Chart to help you decide which of the fee-based sites has the passenger lists you need to find your immigrant ancestor